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Continuity: In the first scene with Willie and Lucy talking to Jack, Willie and Lucy are drinking Orange Pop with clear bottles, but when the shot changes the bottles change to brown glass bottles.See more »

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Jack Burden:To find something, anything, a great truth or a lost pair of glasses, you must first believe there would be some advantage in finding it. I found something a long time ago, and have held on to it for grim death ever since. I owe my success in life to it; it put me where I am today. This principle: what you don't know, won't hurt you. They called it idealism in a book I read.See more »

This film is actually pretty dreadful on many levels. First the music
is thuddingly melodramatic; it's like the producers saw the dailies and
said "well...there's not much going on, but we'll fix it with the
music". The pacing is often glacial, but most disastrously, the film is
FATALLY MISCAST. Sean Penn is screeching and braying as Willie Stark,
and during his long speeches about "the hicks" he gestures like John
Belushi doing Joe Cocker. He simply is nothing, physically or
temperamentally like Huey Long on whom the character is based. On the
other hand, I bet Penn would have been great as the journalist Jack
Burden, and certainly far superior to the miscast Jude Law who is
unbelievable as an investigative journalist. Ironically James
Gandolfini gives a good impression of what Willie Stark should be in
the secondary role of Tiny Duffy. And Jackie Earle Haley is chilling
and most effective with virtually no dialog as Sugarboy, Willie's
gunsil. Almost every other actor, Hopkins, Winslet, Ruffalo is wasted
in this totally unnecessary remake of a very good 40's film.

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